Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 46
Abounadar seemed not to perceive it; on the contrary, he loaded him with caresses, kept him some days in the house, and commanded him to be treated as himself.
Who acts: Abounadar · What happens: seem, not perceive, load, keep, command, treat · To what, where: heart, Abdallah, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abounadar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abounadar | Abounadar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 perceive | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 perceive | mark |
| 5 | perceive | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 perceive | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 contrary | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 contrary | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 contrary | det |
| 10 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 loaded | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 loaded | nsubj |
| 13 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 contrary | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 loaded | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 caresses | case |
| 16 | caresses | caress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 loaded | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kept | punct |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 contrary | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kept | obj |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 days | det |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 commanded | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 commanded | cc |
| 27 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 commanded | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 treated | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 treated | aux:pass |
| 31 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 commanded | advcl |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 himself | case |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 treated | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Abounadar | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | not perceive | to-infinitive | Abounadar not said here | heart | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | load | past | Abounadar | Abdallah | with caresses | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with caress=Theme | |||
| 4 | keep | past | Abounadar not said here | Abdallah | the house | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in house=Location | ||
| 5 | command | past | Abounadar not said here | Abdallah | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | treat | to-infinitive · passive | Abounadar not said here | as Abounadar | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: as himself=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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